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Silent Revenge (2012)

by Laura Landon(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1612184774 (ISBN13: 9781612184777)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Montlake Romance

review 1: There is always a book that you read and think what is everyone going on about? Have I just read a completely different book? Silent Revenge is such a book for me. I feel really bad only giving it 2 stars but I could not get on with the books.The story starts off with Jessica attending a ball and sitting off to the side because she wants to blend in as a wallflower. She does not want to draw attention to herself and discourages any male interest. The only reason Jessica has decided to attend the ball was to see a dress designed by herself (This is kept a secret that only she, her friend and the madam who sells the designs knows) being worn to the ball. However before the Lady arrives the ball is all a flutter as Simon, the Earl of Northcote decided to attend the event. He ... moredominates the room with his massive presence and gossip starts flying as he was accused of killing his own farther for money. Jessica takes notice of him as she is attracted to him. When Jessica is told by her solicitor that her evil step brother is not dead as previously assumed and her stepbrother will try to prove her insane to gain her inheritance she hatches the plan to marry someone who can stand up to him and protect her. She turns up at Simon’s house to offer him a marriage of convenience, while Simon is trying to get drunk at home to forget and make himself feel better. She propose this and he is really rude. I don’t have a problem is the main character is a jerk as long as he redeems himself. I mean I LOVED Sebastian from The Devil in Winter and Sandro from The Unwanted Wife. Simon was too cruel though and I do not feel his character made up for it by the end of the book.“Damn you, woman. Stop your lies. I would rather watch every stone and timber of Ravenscroft fall down at my feet than marry you.”I liked Jessica, it turns out she is deaf and has taught herself to lip read. I felt so sorry for her when she proposes marriage and Simon refuses her as he thinks she’s lying. She turns to her friends for help, she wants to leave the country to be safe. Simon turns up at her friend’s house (yes apparently they have mutual friends) and finds out she was telling the truth. He decides to marry her to get revenge from her stepbrother. He makes sure Jessica knows he only marrying her for money though. The lack of communication is what annoys he, he does not want to admit to her he married her for revenge, he too harsh with Jessica and they do not spend that much time together. I found it unbelievable that Jessica can read someone’s lips from a carriage aswell. I think there were too many issues in this book for me to enjoy it. By the end of it I was a bit meh, I did not care if they feel in love and stayed together or not. I really really wanted to like this story because it had so much promise. This book hasn’t put me off reading Laura Landon books as the writing was good, it was just the story was not for me.
review 2: What a load of rubbish!How was it that the only person that Jessica could marry just so happened to be best friends with her best friends AND also her brother's nemesis?Her disability was an original idea that is worth credit, but it was totally diminished by her preternatural ability to read lips.Last, but certainly not least, the overuse of the swear words "bloody hell" really ground at me. That was NOT the only way to swear at the time. I haven't been able to find out where the author is from, however it does seem like "bloody hell" was peppered throughout the book as something 'quintessentially British' by an author who is not British and has not done enough research about the [vulgar] language used at the time.Do not waste your time. less

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